acornarleneld
@acornarleneld.bsky.social
Working to build a more just and equitable world where every person is treated with dignity and respect. Fighting the scourges of racism, imperialism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, genocide, unrestrained capitalism.
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Columbia cancelled my class on race and journalism, but I'm teaching anyway.
Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!
I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!
I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Columbia cancelled my class on race and journalism, but I'm teaching anyway.
Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!
I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102!
I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she's removing the age limit for ICE applicants, which allows literal teenagers to now apply. What could possibly go wrong?
August 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison
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Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
May 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
A major feat of nature. Looks like jdv is both putin's mouthpiece and his asshole
Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia (Gift Article)
Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire plan would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and that the U.S. would “walk away” if both parties did not agree.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A major feat of nature. Looks like jdv is both putin's mouthpiece and his asshole
One of our great joys of the past five years has been supporting Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, @m3musicians.bsky.social, who amplify the voices of women, non-binary, and other underrepresented artists in the field of contemporary creative music. Get tickets/donate to the 5-year celebration.
M³ Annual Spring Celebration and Benefit!
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April 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of our great joys of the past five years has been supporting Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, @m3musicians.bsky.social, who amplify the voices of women, non-binary, and other underrepresented artists in the field of contemporary creative music. Get tickets/donate to the 5-year celebration.
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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
February 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
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This is corruption on a scale unseen before in American history.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows
The State Department’s procurement forecast, revised as of late December 2024, lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to buy $400,000,000...
www.dropsitenews.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is corruption on a scale unseen before in American history.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
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The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
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On this Super Bowl Sunday, when the NFL kowtowed and dropped the plan to use “End Racism” as its end zone message, I’m sharing this on the meaning of “woke.” It asks: “How is compassion, empathy and care for racial and social justice not something to embrace?”
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
Embracing the Woke
What's so wrong with compassion, safety and racial justice?
www.americaamerica.news
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
On this Super Bowl Sunday, when the NFL kowtowed and dropped the plan to use “End Racism” as its end zone message, I’m sharing this on the meaning of “woke.” It asks: “How is compassion, empathy and care for racial and social justice not something to embrace?”
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
Here's a surprise. The orange one wants to evict all Palestinians from Gaza, no doubt so he and his toadies can build it into a US controlled colony full of lavish resorts for the upper crust.
February 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Here's a surprise. The orange one wants to evict all Palestinians from Gaza, no doubt so he and his toadies can build it into a US controlled colony full of lavish resorts for the upper crust.
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Trump's funding-freeze fiasco should demonstrate to Democrats that speaking loudly in unison is a pretty good way to set the media agenda and to alert voters that something is gravely amiss with his assaults on rule of law and constitutional governance:
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
January 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Substack is going to keep on substacking unless writers move their newsletters elsewhere and we as readers stop reading people’s substack newsletters.
We all have a part to play in taking this fucking platform down and making sure independent journalism stops being laundered through a nazi bar.
We all have a part to play in taking this fucking platform down and making sure independent journalism stops being laundered through a nazi bar.
Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond
On Substack’s ongoing commitment to freedom of the press
read.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Substack is going to keep on substacking unless writers move their newsletters elsewhere and we as readers stop reading people’s substack newsletters.
We all have a part to play in taking this fucking platform down and making sure independent journalism stops being laundered through a nazi bar.
We all have a part to play in taking this fucking platform down and making sure independent journalism stops being laundered through a nazi bar.
Indeed.
One of the real problems is that too many people conveniently believe the opposite of diversity is merit, and the opposite of inclusion is high standards.
Yeah, that’s just not the case.
(See: Pete Hegseth among countless others.)
Yeah, that’s just not the case.
(See: Pete Hegseth among countless others.)
January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Indeed.
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Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
www.cjonline.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...
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“[Manifest Destiny] is... the idea of empowering individual White men to take over lands and take over the property of their neighbors.”
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at imperialism in his Inauguration & the origins of the term ‘Manifest Destiny’.
zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at imperialism in his Inauguration & the origins of the term ‘Manifest Destiny’.
zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
'Truly Frightening': Top Historian on MAGA and Tech Bros' Unprecedented Alliance
Heather Cox Richardson, of ‘Letters From an American’ fame, tells Mehdi what worries her most about this moment in US history - and what gives her hope.
zeteo.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“[Manifest Destiny] is... the idea of empowering individual White men to take over lands and take over the property of their neighbors.”
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at imperialism in his Inauguration & the origins of the term ‘Manifest Destiny’.
zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at imperialism in his Inauguration & the origins of the term ‘Manifest Destiny’.
zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
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As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Trump’s Attacks On DEI Are a Green Light for the Government to Discriminate
Under the guise of eliminating racial discrimination against white men, the Trump administration is launching a frontal assault on the country’s civil rights infrastructure.
www.thenation.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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If CBS settles this BS case, the money they pay Trump will pale in comparison to the drop in ratings they will experience.
January 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If CBS settles this BS case, the money they pay Trump will pale in comparison to the drop in ratings they will experience.
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definitely the feel-good story of the week
January 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
definitely the feel-good story of the week
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3 GOP justices on North Carolina Supreme Court express full support for overturning victory of Democrat Allison Riggs. This remains 5 alarm fire for democracy & should be getting far more national attention. It’s Trump 2020 playbook, but could actually succeed www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
North Carolina’s Republican Justices signal support for overturning Democratic judge’s election
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to resurrect Trump's 2020 playbook.
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
3 GOP justices on North Carolina Supreme Court express full support for overturning victory of Democrat Allison Riggs. This remains 5 alarm fire for democracy & should be getting far more national attention. It’s Trump 2020 playbook, but could actually succeed www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“We are not going to be intimidated by those acts of terror to radically shift our way of living. That’s what individuals who stoke fear into people want to see happen.” @wttw.bsky.social
Johnson Brushes Off Threat of Arrest for Failing to Help Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort
“We are not going to be intimidated by those acts of terror to radically shift our way of living,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “That’s what individuals who stoke fear into people want to see happen.”
news.wttw.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“We are not going to be intimidated by those acts of terror to radically shift our way of living. That’s what individuals who stoke fear into people want to see happen.” @wttw.bsky.social